Appropriate Technology, Development - Book List Appropriate Technology Fall 2016

BOOK TITLE	AUTHOR	MISC. INFO	Student Name(s)
Wk3: Wednesday	The Maya Culture, Due Oct. 3 in class: Oct. 5
Sons of the Shaking Earth, The People of Mexico and Guatemala-their Land, History and Culture	Eric Wolf
The Maya	Michael D. Coe
Popol Vuh, the Book of the Ancient Maya	Delia Goetz and Sylvanus Griswold Morley
Amaranth, modern Prospects for an ancient Crop	Board on Science and Technology, International Development Ofﬁce, International Affairs
Maya Folk Tales, Folklore from Lake Atitlan	James D. Sexton
The lost civilization, the Story of the Classic Maya	T. Patrick Culbert
Maya de Guatemala	Carmen Petersen
The Two Crosses of Todos Santos	Maud Oakes

Wk4: Monday	Collapse of Society, Due Oct. 10, in class: Oct. 12
Guns, Germs and Steel, the Fate of Human Societies	Jared Diamond
Collapse	Jared Diamond*		Jesse Hynes
Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire	Patricia A. McAnany
Why Nations Fail	Daron Acemoglo and James Robinson
King Leopald's Ghost	Adam Hochschild
Yucatan, before and after the conquest	Friar Diego de Landa
When Victims Become Killers	Mahmood Mamdanis		Elizabeth Russell
Wk4: Wednesday
Neocolonialism	Due Oct 12, In Class: Oct. 14
Overthrown, America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq	Stephen Kinzer
The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power	Patrick Porter
Guatemala, Unnatural Disaster	Roger Plant
Bitter Fruit, the untold story of the American Coup in Guatemala	Stephen Schlesinger; Stephen Kinzer
Guatemala in Rebellion, Unﬁnished History	Edited by Jonathan L. Fried, Marvin E. Gettleman, Deborah T. Levenson and Nancy Peckenham
[[#\|Dollars]] & Dictators, a Guide to Central America	Dollars & Dictators, a Guide to Central America	Difficult to find. You may borrow Pete's copy

Wk5: Monday	The People's Struggle, Due. Oct. 17, In class: Oct. 19
I, Rigoberta Menchu, an Indian Woman in Guatemala	Rigoberta Menchu, edited by Elizabeth Burgos-Debray	Class Reads Wikipedia: Rigoberta Menchu
Refugees of a Hidden War, The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala	Beatriz Manz
Trade Unionist Against Terror, Guatemala City 1954-1985	Deborah Levenson-Estrada
Bridge of Courage	Jennifer Harbury	Class Reads wikipedia: Jennifer Harbury
A Long Way Gone	Ishmael Beah
Wk 5: Wednesday The People and the Forest	Due. Oct. 19, In class: Oct. 21
Blue Clay People	William Powers
The World is as you Dream it, teachings from the Amazon and Andes	John Perkins
Whispering in the Giant's Ear	William Powers

Wk6: Monday International Interventions (AID)	Due Oct. 24, In class: Oct. 26
Dead Aid	Dambisa Moyo	Pete has copy
How to Change the World, social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas	David Borenstein
Delivering Development	Edward R. Carr		Joanne Phung
The End of Poverty, economic possibilities of our time	Jeffrey D. Sachs
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History	Laurent Dubois
Just Transitions	Mark Swilling
Poor Economics	Abhiji V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Rwanda, Inc	Patricia Crisafulli

Wk6: Wednesday Development	Due Oct. 26, in class: Oct. 28
Development as Freedom	Amartya Sen		Sandy Shane
Guatemalan National Human Development Report 2009 - 2010 (In Spanish)	http://desarrollohumano.org.gt/content/indh-2009-2010	Class reads Human Development Report, 2010
Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, Aid and Technology	Ian Smilie	Pete has copy
The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development	Maggie Black
The Bottom Billion	Paul Collier
The White Man's Burden	William Easterly
Confessions of an Economic Hitman	Perkins
Wk7: Monday	Working with People, Due Oct. 31, In class: Nov. 2
When the ground turns in its sleep	Sylvia Sellers-Garcia*
Three Cups of Tea	Greg Mortenson
Deer Hunting with Jesus	Joe Beagant
Mountains Beyond Mountains	Tracey Kidder	Pete has copy	Kyle Cherry
My Path Leads to Tibet	Sabriye Tenberken
Three Cups of Deceit	Jon Krakauer

Wk7: Wednesday Appropriate Technology	Due Nov. 2, In class: Nov. 4
Appropriate Technology: Tools, Choices and Implications	Barrett Hazeltine and Christopher Bull
Small is Beautiful	E.F. Schumacher
Design like you Give a Damn, Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crisis	Cameron Sinclaire
Manos de Mujer, manual on Appropriate Technology for Community DevelopmentSpanish	Luz Marina Delgado	I have this book
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind	William Kamkwamba		Allison Tuso
Gaviotas	Alan Weisman		Sarah Mete
Stuffed and Starved	Raj Patel		Ari Burton

Wk8: Monday	Micro Lending and Business Solutions, Due Nov. 7, In class: Nov. 9
Out of Poverty, what works when traditional approaches fail	Paul Polak
Creating a World Without Poverty, social business and the future of capitalism	Muhammad Yunus
A Framework for Understanding Poverty	Ruby Payne
Banker to the Poor, Micro-lending and the battle against world poverty	Muhammad Yunus		Chloe Spencer
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World	Jacqueline Novogratz
More Than Good Intentions	Dean Karlan

Wk8: Wednesday, Micro Lending and Business Solutions	Due Nov. 9, In class: Nov. 11
The New Age of Innovation, driving cocreated value through global networks	C.K. Prahalad; M.S. Krishnan
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, eradicating poverty through proﬁts	C.K. Prahalad
You can Hear Me Now	Nicholas P. Sullivan
Diffusion of Innovations	Everett M. Rogers	Pete has copy	Sahil Oberoi

Wk 9: Monday	Innovation of Things: Due Nov. 14, In class: Nov. 16
The design of Everyday Things	Donald A. Norman	Pete has copy	Gianno Lucas Eli S.
Design for a living world	Abbott Miller
Do Good Design: How designers can change the world	David B. Berman		Jim Marett
Cradle to Cradle, rethinking the way we make things	William McDonough & Michael Braungart
The 10 Faces of Innovation	Tom Kelley		Kaelyn Rohm
The Art of Innovation	Tom Kelley		Harrison Waschura
Where Good Ideas Come From	Steven Johnson

Wk 9: Wednesday Reinventing Ourselves	Due Nov. 16, In class: Nov. 18
Imagine	Jonah Lehr	Pete has CD
Convergence	Thomas H. Colledge	Download .pdf from web
Thinking in Systems	Donella H. Meadows	Pete has copy
Cradle to Cradle	Look up from Monday's class,
Change by Design: How design thinking transform organizations and inspire innovation	Tim Brown
Design Activism: Beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world	Alastair Faud-Luke		Ariana Brandao
Creative Confidence	Tom Kelley		Chelsea Glasnow
The Other World: DUE when the reader finds it appropriate	Weatherby, Arceneaux, Evans, Long, Reed, Novikova-Carter	You can't pick this text if you've had it for a class. Pete has copy
The New Age of Innovation, driving cocreated value